KHN columns explore how abortion funding issues are factoring into health reform

In one Kaiser Health News column, Jessica Arons writes: "In an attempt to keep health reform from being torpedoed by the ever-contentious topic of abortion, advocates and opponents of abortion rights were expected to agree that legislation would preserve the "status quo" on abortion law and not be used to advance or restrict abortion rights. Unfortunately, fights erupted over different definitions of the status quo and how to apply it to a reformed health insurance system, and the health care debate quickly became embroiled in abortion politics anyway" (3/19). Read the entire column. 

Meanwhile, in the second Kaiser Health News column, Chuck Donovan writes: "How will the national drama over President Barack Obama's health care reform conclude? The views of a number of Midwest House Democrats on the issue of abortion may be the deciding factor" (3/19). Read entire column.